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"Cecil: Yuh see MR. SHERMAN calling for a PROPER MICROPHONE and MUSIC STUDIOS for recording PAN MUSIC (facilitating our unique artform). A man after my own heart.
(Ah see yuh immigration block CHELSEA MANNING from coming into your country ... ah go…"

"I'm glad u people feel the way u do. After CHRIST Pan is meh lifeblood. I make my living thru Pan. Brethren Pan is much,much, much more than Panorama. Don't get me wrong I;m all 4 Panorama but let's face it before and after…"

Colin RobinsonPublished: Monday, September 25, 2017The point of telling a story is the ending. The moral.Sometimes the end falls out of a story. At times the beginning. Or middle. They have out of so many Caribbean stories, across waters, across tellers. Often, too, stories have more than one ending; but only a single one gets told. The storyteller’s job is the vigilance, or the imagination, that a story end right.I have to…See More

""The Migrants like artefacts fossilised in whatever year they'd arrived."
The first time I made that observation around the LABOUR DAY CELEBRATIONS (represented by the varied music I heard from block to block) it was an introspective…"

"As I have commented before on this forum; there are two distinct conceptions when we speak about "Pan". There is pan the instrument(s) and there is pan the music of the steel orchestra. So that when we…"

"ISF is a start in the right direction regardless of the time it took to eventually materialize. Claude you must understand it is not an easy penetration to make. I have been chanting this kind of mantra for over seven years myself and very little…"

"That's is because that is all it took to be better than that gangsta Rolly Polly and his band of thugs. There is great potential for the Steelband Foundation. The only chapter left for Rolly Polly is an orange jump suit and a room…"

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Calypso, the unique art form that defined Trinidad and Tobago for a hundred years, that clever, creative combination of lyrics with rhyme and melody to haunt the living and awaken the dead, is dead. Gone to a great cultural…

Global - He was simply the world's greatest steelpan music arranger. Moreover, he was the one the titans of pan bowed to. This was his stage, his arena, his moment. This was his time. Panorama was "Bradley Time." Master arranger Clive Bradley, more so than any other, shaped and elevated the music and theatre of the panorama as we know it.

We revisit a musical examination of some of the Master's works by one of the most respected and gifted music talents out of the Caribbean. Frankie… Continue

Pan Times: Ellie Mannette SAID on National TV in T&T that HE, started "Oval Boy's in 1938 when HE DID NOT which is a BIG LIE, pan was just coming out of it's dust bin phase, where Carlton "sonny" Roach had just put note's on his 1st "KLIM MILK CAN", where Oval Boy's did not really start untill 1944 evolving from "Green Eye's" another band in the Woodbrook area, while WORLD WAR II was in PROGRESS, by Ellie's older brother Milton "ossie" Mannette, his nephew Herman Gomez, and Francis Wickham, there's photo's of Ellie playing a " dud up " in 1944 with Wickham, and one where he's shaking a "shack shack", in 1947 while in Oval Boy's with Gomez, Dove, and Wickham playing ping pong/ tenor, Invaders got their name "Night Invaders" after the war ended in May of 1945, and later changed it to Invaders, and Vernon "birdie" Mannette was tuning BEFORE Ellie where Ellie never started tuning untill 1948/49, how could Invaders be celebrating their 75th Anniversary, isn't it a bit premature???

Ms. Miranda La Rose; Hameed Shaqq, DO NOT KNOW WHAT HE"S TALKING ABOUT, because "PYTHAGORAS" DID NOT create/invented the Cycle of Fifths, ANTHONY WILLIAMS DID in 1949/50, he Pythagoras in 500 B.C. derived/create the MATHEMICAL THEOREM, or NUMERICAL EQUATIONS which WILLIAMS used to derive the cycle of 4ths & 5ths, by the GYRATING or MOVEMENT of the "PLANETS", Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn and Uranus, Neptune and Pluto was discovered much much later after "Pythagoras" was murdered, as a student of Williams, I'm the only one he entrusted with his"DOSSIER of SCHEMATICS" et al, ect ect ect... there were other who had the opportunity to create/derive from the theorem, Nicolaus Copenicus in 1515 and Tycho Brahe in 1590, but it was only Johannes Kepler a German astronomer in 1615, where he derived the five lines and four spaces, on manuscript using "Pythagoras" first seven (7) planets and the other two (2) later discovered planets, never the less but nice try Mr. SHAQQ, the next time PLEASE get all your fact correct,

Pan Am North Stars "Ivory and Steel" with Winnifred Atwell and , Pan Am North Stars and the Marrionettes Choir, conducted by Joycelyn Pierre... I know most of U have'nt heard the one with the Marrionettes Choir ???

Pan Times; I know that U guy's mean well, but Mr.Williams is NOT 85 years of age this year, being born 26th of June 1931 this makes him 84years of age, please don't rush him, he'll get there and past that in due time...

Pan Times; you need to go back into your steel band archives, if U have an archive and see the other three band's, Pan Am North Stars, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony, and WITCO Desperadoes that "Rock" Carnegie Hall, where the "Musical Caliber were Superior" to that of today's, the musical performance was no way near that of the previous 1964 and 1970s ...

Pan Times; please inform the Trinidad Express News that, there history or information is "ERRONEOUS", Pan Am North stars was the first Steel Band to preform at Carnegie Hall November 23rd 1964, with 10 year old Kenneth Clarke, 17 year old Lynn Barton, and myself 19 years old at the time, on stage drill master leader for Anthony Williams, in 1970, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony also preformed at Carnegie Hall with a youth ensemble, Adolphus "ages" Baptiste, Michael Reis, etc, before WITCO Desperadoes, hate to burst your bubbles fellars, but St Margaret's Boys Steel Orchestra, U R JOURNEY IS LATE...

Pan Times; please inform the Trinidad Express News that, there history or information is "ERRONEOUS", Pan Am North stars was the first Steel Band to preform at Carnegie Hall November 23rd 1964, with 10 year old Kenneth Clarke, 17 year old Lynn Barton, and myself 19 years old at the time, on stage drill master leader for Anthony Williams, in 1970, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony also preformed at CaPan Times; please inform the Trinidad Express News that, there history or information is "ERRONEOUS", Pan Am North stars was the first Steel Band to preform at Carnegie Hall November 23rd 1964, with 10 year old Kenneth Clarke, 17 year old Lynn Barton, and myself 19 years old at the time, on stage drill master leader for Anthony Williams, in 1970, BWIA Sunjets West Side Symphony also preformed at Carnegie Hall with a youth ensemble, Adolphus "ages" Baptiste, Michael Reis, etc, before WITCO Desperadoes, hate to burst your bubbles fellars, but St Margaret's Boys Steel Orchestra, U R JOURNEY IS LATE...rnegie Hall with a youth ensemble, Adolphus "ages" Baptiste, Michael Reis, etc, before WITCO Desperadoes, hate to burst your bubbles fellars, but St Margaret's Boys Steel Orchestra, U R JOURNEY IS LATE...